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Acknowledgement of repayment of a loan made by a deceased mother TM 18621Alexandria11 - 10 v.Chr.

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A contract (synchoresis) addressed to Protarchos, head of the Alexandrian court, in which the siblings Alexandros and Athenion acknowledge that Tethoes has repaid 240 silver drachmas plus interest that their late mother Takonsomis had lent him. They declare the original loan agreement void and renounce all further claims. Alexandria, 11-10 BC.

In English machine translation

[… 2 lines lost …] to Protarchos, from Tethoes son of A…ebis, and from Alexandros son of Achilleus and his sister Athenion daughter of Achilleus, with her guardian, the said Alexandros. Alexandros and Athenion agree that they have received from Tethoes, from hand to hand out of the house, 240 silver drachmas and the interest on them, which their mother Takonsomis daughter of Nochis lent to him by a synchoresis through the same court in the seventh year of Caesar, Hathyr; since she has died, her property has passed to them; and that the said synchoresis is void, as are any later loan securities of the said Tethoes which they may hold; and that neither Alexandros and Athenion nor anyone else on their behalf will proceed against Tethoes, either about these matters or about any other debt or claim whatsoever, written or unwritten, from past times up to the present day […] [… lines lost …]

A synchoresis was an agreement registered before the Alexandrian court (kriterion) presided over by Protarchos under Augustus. The original loan dates to Hathyr of Augustus' 7th year (24 BC).

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Rückzahlung eines Darlehns, Alexandrien). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

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bgu.4.1169

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 11 - 10 v.Chr. · Alexandria

[… 2 lines lost …] Πρωτάρχωι παρὰ Τηθοήους τοῦ Ἀ…ηβους καὶ παρὰ Ἀλεξάνδρου τοῦ Ἀχιλλέως καὶ τῆς τούτου ἀδελφῆς Ἀθηνίου τῆς Ἀχιλλέως μετὰ κυρίου αὐτοῦ Ἀλεξάνδρου. συνχωροῦσιν Ἀλέξανδρος καὶ Ἀθήνιον ἀπεσχηκέναι παρὰ τοῦ Τηθοήους διὰ χειρὸς ἐξ οἴκου ἀργυρίου δραχμὰς σμ καὶ τοὺς τούτ…